In one sentence
Contracts you upload or create here now get a term view with a traffic-light indicator — but only what you have confirmed yourself enters the list, and the cut-off date is calculated rather than estimated.
The moment a contract disappears
A contract has two lives. The first lasts days: reading, negotiating, signing. The second lasts years — and until now took place in no tool at all, ours included: an analysis ended with an assessment, a contract with a file. That is where the most expensive mistake of everyday contract work happens: the notice period expires while the document lies in a folder nobody opens any more. The new Terms view therefore sorts contracts not by the date of upload but by what is coming next.
Five states, one warning window
Every row carries one of five states — deliberately sober, because a traffic light that turns red too often is ignored:
- Terminable until … — the cut-off date is fixed. The marking appears in the window of 60 days before it.
- Automatically renewed — the contract has been extended because nothing happened within the window.
- Term expired
- Terminated
- Running — no end date recorded — the most honest state: it names the fact that the basis for a warning is missing, instead of feigning calm.
The cut-off date is calculated, not estimated
If the end of a period falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the cut-off date moves to the next working day under § 193 BGB. The view calculates this with the same function that sits behind the public notice period calculator — only backwards, from the end of the contract.
The limit belongs at precisely this point: regional public holidays in individual federal states are deliberately left out. If your cut-off date falls on such a day, the actual period may shift. Do not aim for the last day, therefore — and where it really matters, legal advice is worth having.
Why the AI enters nothing on its own
The detection of the term, the renewal and the notice period runs along with the document analysis and ends there as a suggestion. The wording of the notice is deliberate: “We have found the term and notice period in this document … nothing is entered automatically.”
A term entry that rests on a misread clause is worse than none at all — it creates certainty where there is none. The second part of the same decision weighs more heavily: a confirmed row is never overwritten by a fresh analysis. If you have corrected an end date because the AI misunderstood a clause, it stays yours. A detail on the side: at the cheapest level of analysis the detection does not run — the quick check delivers an assessment, but no suggestion about the term.
“The legal basis has changed”
For contracts created here a second observation is added: 23 contract templates are mapped to 40 statutory slugs — the platform knows which provisions a template builds on. If the wording of one of these provisions changes, a note appears on the contracts concerned — alongside the honest addition: “We do not check whether that matters for your contract.” Whether a change is merely editorial or gives cause to redraft a clause is legal work.
What this view is not
- It knows only contracts you have uploaded or created here. A subscription the platform knows nothing about does not appear.
- It shows only confirmed rows — the price of having nothing unchecked in the traffic light.
- It does not give notice and sends nothing. Terminating remains your act.
- It replaces no legal advice. Whether a renewal clause is effective is a question of assessment.
What it does is narrower, and reliable in return.
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